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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the shifting gravity do to the ship?
(a) Turns walls into floors and floor into ceilings
(b) Makes the ship seem smaller
(c) Makes Ransom feel like his bones are breaking
(d) Makes the men much heavier

2. As Ransom loses consciousness what does he sense?
(a) That Weston and Devine are wrestling on the floor
(b) Being pulled back into the house and the door being shut
(c) That it is very dark in the Rise
(d) That Devine is laughing over him

3. When Ransom comes to from being drugged, he tries to escape but is unable because:
(a) he is knocked out from behind
(b) he is chained to the wall
(c) there is no door in the room he is in
(d) he can't find his shoes

4. Because of the point of view of the story, the reader knows:
(a) that Ransom is about to be sacrificed to the sun god
(b) only what Ransom knows
(c) that Ransom is on his way to Malacandra
(d) that Weston thinks Ransom is highly intelligent

5. Who surrounds Ransom as they walk into the hross's home village?
(a) Hross children and other adult hross
(b) The women of the hross
(c) Small, furry animals who remind Ransom of dogs
(d) Armed hross who take him to a prison

6. How does most things on the planet appear to Ransom?
(a) The whole landscape appears fat and bloated
(b) Everything Ransom can see has a strange, elongated form
(c) Everything appears hazy and out of focused
(d) Everything he sees is some shade of gray

7. What does Ransom see among the trees?
(a) A sorn looking for him
(b) Weston and Devine looking for him
(c) A strange looking yellow and blue bird
(d) Small red creatures dart in and out among the enormous trees

8. The view outside the window is:
(a) a meadow full of cows
(b) a beautiful waterfall
(c) a forest that he doesn't recognize
(d) of stars and what may be the moon

9. What are the first type of creatures Ransom sees as he wanders the forest?
(a) Giraffe like animals eating off the tops of trees
(b) He doesn't see anything alive other than himself
(c) A creature that looks much like a squirrel
(d) A bird resembling a robin

10. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?
(a) The temperature stays the same
(b) The temperature drops
(c) The temperature changes intemittently from hot to cold
(d) It becomes hotter

11. What is an eldil?
(a) A spirit like messenger of Oyarsa
(b) A plant which is the main diet stable of the hross
(c) A group of hross who live together, like a tribe
(d) A child of the hross born with psychic abilities

12. When Weston confirms that Ransom is on a spaceship, Ransom is overcome with:
(a) anger
(b) fear
(c) elation
(d) forboding

13. What position does Ransom take on the ship?
(a) Morale officer
(b) Cook
(c) Navigator
(d) Weapons officer

14. What are the waves on the water like?
(a) The waves, like everything on the planet, are high and sharp
(b) Fast and high
(c) There are no waves, the water is still
(d) Gentle and rolling

15. Rather than it being the moon that Ransom is seeing, Weston tells him that the large orb is:
(a) the sun
(b) Jupiter
(c) a large light bulb
(d) the earth

Short Answer Questions

1. The second man, who is an accomplice to the man in question #4 and who is a physicist.

2. The effect of weightlessness is countered by:

3. What does Ransom hear as he runs through the forest?

4. When the center of gravity shifts during approach to Malacandra what to the men do?

5. How does the water feel to Ransom as he runs through it?

(see the answer keys)

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